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Eyedust

@ Eyedust @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Jack of random trades at random times that randomly catch my interest for a random amount of time.

  • Bill Gates is a horrible person.

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  • My PC repair teacher hated Gates. The first story he told us about him was about how he essentially obtained DOS for a literal pittance, turned a massive profit on it, and never credited the original creators.

    I might've skewed the story over the years of trying to keep it in my memory, but if I did it just goes to show how much I hate Bill Gates.

  • Are there any uncensored AI assistants?

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  • You're probably looking for an abliterated model. Be sure you can run it, first, as localhosting models needs high VRAM. You'll want RAM, too, in the case of GGUF models.

    I'd have to write a whole half a book here to explain how to use them, but that information is freely available online. If you don't have a beefy GPU, look into how to host GGUF models.

  • [NSFW] How do you deal with a high sex drive in a dry spell?

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  • Meditation.

  • Soulseek Noob

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  • NixOS is well worth a try. If you know lua and json, its not too hard to pick up nixlang. I know neither and it only took me a few weeks to learn it. But once you get the hang of it, you can make a Linux reproducible on other systems. I made everything modular. GPU drivers for my old laptop? Imported nix module. Neovim? Imported nix module.

    Yeah, I've done that. I've also deleted SCSI on my first Windows PC, lol. I still haven't learned my lesson and mess with things I can't handle. I was notorious for destroying my mother's computers growing up. Then I learned to fix the things I broke.

    As of right now, I use Audacious. Its my absolute favorite music client and all completely modular. You head to the plugins section and add what you want. It doesn't even close to system tray without a plugin, so super customizable. If you can't tell, I love modular things, lol.

    For a quick music shuffle list with a really sleek design, Amberol is a really close second. Especially if you use GNOME, since its designed by default in the GNOME style. I use KDE, so I stick with Audacious, but I did enjoy my time with MPD on XFCE using a plugin designed for that DE. If I went back to Hyprland, I'd probably use MPD.

  • Soulseek Noob

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  • Yeah, I'm not a huge fan of firewire, but back in the day it was actually pretty nice. 1.5A @ 30v was pretty nuts back then. I had a PC filled with pirated music I got from LAN parties in high school. No idea where that music went... probably destroyed in a Windows reinstall.

    lol! I took a Linux class a long time ago and learned on Damn Small Linux. I came back to it years later with Pop!_OS then moved to Arch where I stayed for 2 years. Went to NixOS for a while.

    But I never gave Fedora the time it deserved, so as an afterthought I tried it after I messed up my Arch system (yeeted my .local folder by accident). Went with Nobara for the ease of setup for gaming. I didn't think I'd stay here, but its just too good.

  • Soulseek Noob

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  • Haven't gotten around to it just yet, but I did tag all the music with the proper metadata. I can't rip anything off my iPod 1st and 2nd gens from my collection yet, but they're stuffed full of music. I just need the proper firewire, but they seem to be more expensive than the units...

    I need to order the music by genre folders now. Today I just got the EddieVPN client for Nobara working. I didn't realize it was as easy as going to the Eddie site and getting the RPM; I've been too spoiled with the Arch AUR having everything I need in one place.

    I'm almost there, though. I'll have the music up soon.

  • Please help me under stand my spouse's gift and their hurt

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  • I see a lot of "just accept the gift" here, but that's a rough choice. If you accept the gift, then you would be expected to use it over the one that you like. Your wife may even go so far as to throw the other one away (depending on what it is). So I don't think accepting the gift was ever an option.

    It really is a hard spot to be put in, and I would have probably done the same thing in your position, even though I hate denying gifts. The whole premise of gifting is flawed, imo, at least where I'm from. To me, the one being gifted is put more on the spot than the one gifting. I hate getting gifts for this reason.

    So maybe this. Explain why you like the one you use better, but that you're very happy with the gift. Ask her if it's okay if you keep that gift as a backup if your first one breaks and store it by the first one "just in case". Its never bad to have two of something.

  • Steamed

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  • Too bad Microsoft doesn't really need help doing that, lol.

  • Soulseek Noob

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  • I'm going to try and do this... but I have like 14 iPod classics worth of music to genre... Time to break out the old MusicBrainz Picard, I guess, just to make sure all the metadata is right. I have some wild stuff, too, like German Beatles songs and weird classical piano I've never heard of.

    I was a little leery of how Soulseek works, so I backed out last second. I've never been trustful of the whole folder sharing thing, even on LAN. I'm going to go for it, though. The world should hear the weird stuff and the good songs I've ripped off old iPods.

  • How do I torrent safely in the US if I can't afford a VPN?

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  • Local library worker here. Can confirm we don't track connections, we only tally how many use our wifi if we can figure it out. Basically the tally just includes whoever brings out their phone in the library.

    Just be aware that the state can supply your library with free internet, and I'm not sure how that's set up. I personally don't like connecting to random open wifi, official or no.

  • Moving to linux at home has me using the command line more.

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  • I'm a hybrid user. I love to use the keyboard, but sometimes I just want to go in a GUI and click click done. It depends on what I need at the time. I love TUIs the most.

    Need to move a handful of files over somewhere? Forget dragging a reticle and dropping them all five subdirectories away, I'm going to boot up Midnight Commander, Zoxide over to where I need to go, select and move.

    A mass amount of files? Gonna mv those puppies.

    Need to move that one piddly file to the next folder down? I'm going to open Dolphin, do a quick move, and call it a day.

    However, for anything programming or note-taking, Vim is love. Qutebrowser or Vimium extensions so I can Vim-ify my browser. Vim everything. We don't need to bring a mouse into that equation.

  • So this happened.

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  • I can sort of live in society, but I'm so self critical that every time I talk I think, "Wow, I just don't shut up," and wind up obsessing over it. Either that or I overshare and feel like an idiot. This eventually led me to recluse away from society and I then became a major burden on my fiancee and stressed my relationship near breaking point.

    Not to mention I have a hard time listening to anything when in the middle of something. I can't switch gears like others can. Either I listen and lose the thread of where I was or I pretend to listen, realize I did it, and apologize profusely.

    However, I can still function at a basic level. Just day by day of going through the motions of what I think a human being should act like.

  • So this happened.

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  • When it comes to my own life and personality, I have developed certain goggles that prevent me from looking at myself, as I don't necessarily want to see what's there...

  • So this happened.

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  • The 50 question test was the exact one I took before, but I had another go. This time 29, instead of 28. I mean, it would be perfectly logical that I am just antisocial, introverted, ADHD, and bi-polar (a new addition).

    I guess it really does get difficult to tell later on in life, when you've developed and refined your social mask. Mine is all cracked and rusty because I went recluse for nearly 5 years (never left the apartment but maybe once every few months).

    The nurse today told me that "everyone has an excuse for something" and that she had depression but she didn't label it bi-polar. I was a little shocked, because I've gotten along with this nurse very well. I didn't mention it to the doctor, because he wasn't my normal doctor. My normal doctor was on vacation.

    I need someone who'll take me seriously and not give me a "buck up, champ" and a pat on the back...

  • So this happened.

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  • I stared at the ground as a kid and teen. As an adult I learned to look people directly in the eye when talking to them. However... as a kid... too much emotion. I couldn't stand to see faces because one look into the crowd and I could tell the dynamic and the feelings of others. At least as an adult everyone has a mask. Though I tend to unsettled people. I don't look at them when talking to them. I look at them.

    Actually, my cousin's son has autism. We had a couple drinks around the fire and she started talking to me about it. She had no idea how to approach it. He's like 17 and she still didn't really know him.

    I spent all most of the night explaining why he did certain things, or at least why I thought he did from personal experience. His big thing was faces. He didn't like them. However, he came up to me and started going down a rabbit hole of trains. I like old trains, too, so we spent the rest of the night deep in that conversation.

    He never had trouble looking me in the face. The reason I think? I have spent my whole life trying to find a way to make my face kind. I have an angry face. It goes beyond just displeased, I look outright mutinous when I relax my face, lol. But I try to be kind, quiet, and courteous and have spent years trying to translate that to my face.

  • So this happened.

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  • Yeah, they said it unnerved them at how uncanny it was. That I was the exact same spectrum placement as her and that meeting someone of the exact same type of autism almost never happens.

    I'm glad I met them. I might have gone my whole life not knowing or even thinking to look. I can notice the same thing, as well. We just talk and talk and we naturally understand our conversation queues, which is crazy rare for me. I agree with them, it's pretty unsettling. Like looking in a mirror and seeing a different face staring back.

  • So this happened.

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  • This is a good take to have, and thank you for the practical response. I show all the signs of BPD as well, as my girlfriend pointed out to me. I go tomorrow to reassess the Abilify with my doctor, as it's unsustainable. I only sleep 2-4 hours a day on it.

    It makes sense. I have all the classic signs of ADHD, particularly loving to start projects and hating to finish them. I enjoy the peaceful worlds of beginnings, but get fairly impatient with the middles and ends of things.

    BPD I'm looking into soon. I have had a constant of every sign of it. I think that's why the Abilify helps so much. I don't think I'm an idiot for talking and no longer cringe at the me from yesterday. I'm also not terrified of being left alone in the world. It's a wonderful feeling.

  • Autism @lemmy.world
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    So this happened.

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  • And I rest my case, lol. I don't even know the difference between init and initramfs. It's definitely a hole in my knowledge and I should know it going down the line, but I need the right time.

    I'm here and there on what I want to learn at any moment. It's not like I can't learn, but it's all about what interests me at the time. I learn things in a scattered manner, which admittedly is a horrible way to learn but its just how my brain works.

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  • I'm a very mid-level Linux user. I use systemd because I'm just not familiar with how init systems actually work. I love that the choice is there, but I think systemd has it's place with users like me that get confused.

    That being said, I did run Dracut on EndeavourOS because it was recommended for that distro. I never dived into it to see what the exact difference was, though I do remember running into some things I needed to do that Dracut did differently. There may come a day when I dive into inits, but for now I'm just happy if my system boots to desktop.

  • Do you guys just have flawless experiences or what?

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  • You're not wrong, though. If you want all your packages to work correctly, you gotta stay up to date. I know some of my packages will break if I go more than a week.

    Yesterday I read about RATs becoming more frequent in the AUR in some packages. They predict that they're going to become more frequent soon. I'm wondering if it might be time to switch my main machine to NixOS now. I may check out Bazzite and Nobara first, though.

    However, I guess Arch is doing something to protect against these? It's going to be part of BumpBuddy.

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    Eyedust @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Airstatus Fork Update: Clean table, output refreshes instead of lists, and color-coded battery levels/charging status. Airpods battery levels for Linux

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    Eyedust @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    I updated Airstatus to accommodate Bleak 1.1.0 and the removal of Discover.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    Eyedust @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Hey Lemmy, what browser do you use and why?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    Eyedust @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    How I gave up a one-game addiction to switch to 100% Linux (long story warning)

  • Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    Eyedust @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    As an older torrent gen, I tried Debrid for the first time.

  • Coffee @lemmy.world
    Eyedust @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    I have been using the Aeropress for about a year; here's the recipe I've refined through testing.