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MonkeMischief

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  • How should I properly document my homelab?

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  • The good thing about YOUR homelab is that YOU’RE taking notes solely for YOURSELF and only YOU know how YOU work and how YOU organize YOUR thoughts.

    Normally I'd agree, in that it's not some corporate production environment, but also I personally want to document my self hosted setup in a kind of document that can at least be accessed and understood by my closest family, if something were to happen to me.

    Convincing them to archive stuff on my Nextcloud instance for example, and them losing access because I'm not around, temporarily or permanently, would spoil the whole point of the endeavor.

  • I went to a grocery store in the morning that I normally go to at night and they had dimmed lights, soft music, as well as no sounds coming from the cash registers

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  • HOW WAS I THINKING THIS EXACT SAME THING.

  • Journiv v0.1.0-beta.8: This Thanksgiving, give your family the gift of memories that last forever

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  • Oh this is REALLY cool. I've been using Daylio for a long time, and this seems like it's aiming to be a great self hosted replacement!

    So, multiple users can journal on their own accounts, or can you control who sees your entries?

    This is such a neat idea. As a soon to be parent, I 100% understand the motive behind building it too. I can't wait to try it! :)

  • What would be a valuable thing to have memorized by heart?

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  • The standardized NATO phonetic alphabet

    ...for when you need to read alpha numeric codes or clarify spellings.

    Especially with, how, inexplicably, phone connections seem to have gotten more garbly in recent years.

    This code was invented to be reasonably understood as much as possible in less-than-ideal communication conditions.

    As time goes on, civilian life is full of situations where you'll need to read off serial numbers, codes, or even spelling your own name, to somebody seemingly connected to you from a million miles away via coconuts and twine.

    So, learn it, and you never need to go "M as in...uh...'Mancy'?" ever again! Your IT department might thank you.

    ...and let's be honest, it sounds kinda cool. :)

  • My nightmare

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  • Y'know...this. I might not like it, and many of their choices are... questionable...

    ...but I think it's good we have some effort coming from full-time career paid Linux developers, rather than just sponsorship money from FOSS-leeches like "mEtA" and "aMaZoN."

    By simply not using Ubuntu, and ignoring the MOTD on my VM servers...I don't really feel affected by their actions in any meaningful way. And that makes me happy.

    As opposed to having to just accept whatever new footgun Microsoft wants to blast users with next.

  • functions

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  • Well hello right back!

    O/

  • functions

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  • I can't imagine writing something like that. Job security? Hah, I'd end up in an inescapable labyrinth of my own making if I named things something that wouldn't be obvious to my 3-months-later self!

    Maybe that's the play: He intentionally confuses himself so it takes extra paid time to remember what the heck "SOISOISOI" does, compared to "Whopwhopwhop".

  • functions

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  • Just looking through this as a fledgling barely-coder...

    ...It inspires fear. Terror, even. LMAO

  • Upgrade to Windows today!

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  • Hey now, garbage companies actually do something productive for society. :p

  • Upgrade to Windows today!

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  • However if you tell their api that you are an smart tv running Linux it works....

    I wanna figure out how the heck to do this. 1080p doesn't particularly bother me, but it's pretty ridiculous getting discriminated against like that.

  • Upgrade to Windows today!

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  • I also blame the Uni for not advertising that it would be required for the coursework.

    Just like Steam now says "REQUIRES KERNEL LEVEL ANTICHEAT" like a big ugly Surgeon General's warning, I think college courses should say stuff like this too.

    Along with "REQUIRES INVASIVE KERNEL LEVEL REMOTE ACCESS MALWARE BROWSER TO TAKE EXAMS"

  • Upgrade to Windows today!

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  • Heroic is so aptly titled. Combined with one of those helper apps to install "Proton GE", it makes you just about unstoppable.

    I'm finding that Linux has given me better compatibility with my game library as a whole!

    For real legacy stuff, Bottles also works a treat. Never thought I'd get Sims 1 working again with so little hassle.

    It's a wonderful time.

  • to my expierence

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  • Oh my gosh the hyper-specific domain names are the WORST. ☠️

    It's like a dream come true for all those get-rich-online-Lambo-selfie-bullshit-artists!

    But having to pay for those domains, and ad eords worth much less now, how the heck is this strategy even worth it I wonder?

  • to my expierence

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  • Something really cool you can do though is block sites from showing up in the results.

    So if you're looking up Linux answers for instance and you keep coming across "First of all, what is a Linux, we're going to..." Ai slop sites, you can click thr 3 dots next to the result and tell it to blacklist that site.

    Not perfect, but definitely helps!

  • Windows users be like

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  • windows is shitty but its setup bullshit is very straight forward and clear to deal with

    Unfortunately, you definitely get a false sense of simplicity when you're essentially forced down a lazy river of:

    "Accept all these corporate agreements, make an account with our centralized authority structure, try to deny a litany of invasive ad permissions (you can't turn it all off lol nice try.), enable our one touch AI button, shut up, and click go."

    "(Pulsing blue light) We'Re TaKiNg CaRe Of YoU. . ."

    Some setup things in Linux can be confusing at first, like how I've agonized over the implications of which file system to use. (Settled on BTRFS for rollbacks, otherwise it doesn't matter for 99.9% of people lol.)

    But also I think we're just at a sad point in history where computers are everywhere but people have terrible computer education (self included), and it's left up to private interests who mainly want a cattle-like customer base.

    ...So everything seems scary and complicated.

    I imagine cars would be the same way if we weren't required to test for a license. They're getting that way quickly though, people wanting a "Push ignition and turn off brain" machine that seemingly "just works" until it doesn't and they must take it to Special Wizards. A black box which they ultimately have no control over, but feels "easy".

    I think it's because people are forced to use these devices. Like driving, some people enjoy the act of computing. Linux is for those people.

    When everybody is forced to use computers every day and most of those computers run something by Apple, Microsoft, or Google, anything else feels like yet another stupid thing to deal with.

    TL;DR: Linux respects the user, but respect is built on a two way street of understanding. People hate learning because they're systemically stressed TF out all the time.

  • Windows users be like

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  • "I'm a busy person with a jobbity job and kids and a mortgage on an iPhone 18 Ultra Plus Air and stuff.

    If I have to READ to make anything work, it's not customer ready, and this new thing should take no time at all to completely understand on my part.

    It needs to be a perfect 'free Windows clone' before I'll even consider switching from the mega-corporate ecosystem I was coerced into dependency on from the start. If there's one thing I hate more than reading, it's asking anybody for help. Especially my friends. The operating system is the problem."

    EDIT (clarity): Just making sure it's clear this is a hyperbolic hypothetical quote based on real things I've read/heard. Trying to be funny. Not my thoughts lol.

  • If you care, then I guess you'll just have to keep giving Microsoft your money and data.

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  • EAC works fine enough, and it turns off when the game is off, and should uninstall with the game, so people don't hate it so much.

    But I dropped all interest in Helldivers 2 because of that crap, which sucks because it seemed like such a fun game. And I'm not touching anything Riot for the same reason. These "just trust us bro" always-on, deeply embedded rootkits are just unethical.

    That is too far even for taking school tests, it's indefensible and absolutely nonsense for a game.

    It's definitely something I can see both sides of though. It would suck to put a huge chunk of time and effort into a multiplayer game just to have cheaters ruin it for everyone on launch. Any game that isn't moderated or making effort to deter them gets overrun quickly.

    I don't understand the mentality that drives people to buy cheats just to feel better about themselves, but it's clearly there.

    TBH though...I don't remember stuff being this bad when private servers were more of a thing. Battlefield 2 / 2142 / 3 / 4 had ranked vs. unranked servers. The good private-run ones had mods to ban cheaters, the ranked ones had stricter enforcement. It seemed fine and we had fun...

    Maybe I'm missing something...

  • Cloudflare went down today and took half of the internet with it. How does one company have that much impact? Do you think that's concerning?

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  • I think you need to possess the certificate first before they'll even consider you, though.

  • If you care, then I guess you'll just have to keep giving Microsoft your money and data.

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  • That's the only thing I worry about personally, not the users so much, but the capitalists who see "opportunity" once Linux gains a hold, and start figuring out how to make it disgusting like everything else they touch with their greedy little slop mitts.

    It won't be "Well, Linux doesn't permit anticheat", it will be

    "Okay how do we create some centralized power structure that makes invasive DRM and anticheat that runs on Linux?"

    And they'll move to colonize.

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
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    Wonder if Bobby Tables is on the nice list?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    How worried should US people be about "tariffs"? Should I invest in upgrading my equipment ASAP?