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somenonewho,

Just cuddle.up and enjoy the sights

somenonewho,

That’s a certain kind of skill I wouldn’t want the need to have. I just copy paste those timestamps into a terminal with date -d @ (and always forget the right syntax for that :D)

somenonewho,

Tja. Zeit den Abgang in den Untergrund vorzubereiten…

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Relevant Technology connections Video

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An article about tweaking sudo without insults?

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Oops guess I didn’t read far enough ;)

somenonewho,

Pigs are pigs no matter where you are.

In Germany they regularly kill POC in “self defense” like when they shot a 16 year old kid, that was holding a knife, with an AR.

Some cops are also fascists or support other fascist actors. Like when an attorney for the victims of the fascist terror group “NSU” got threat via fax signed “NSU 2.0” her Fax number was pulled from the data in Frankfurts 1sr precinct where a bunch of Cops were working that were also in a WhatsApp group sharing Nazi memes.

And the people investigating all of this? The police of course. Like when two police precincts were investigating each other both for killing a person “in self defense”.

Tl;dr: ACAB world wide

somenonewho,

Oof I envy you. I’ve seen my first video 1-2 years ago (the rice cooker one) and ever since I’ve watched all of his Videos (some three times) I’d love to get to experience all of them anew.

somenonewho,

So … I was also interested by that question and intrigued by that photo, so I put on my research cap and went away.

From what I found out it seems to be both:

A staged photo/shot but from a historical movie called Dr. Mabuse the Gambler .

I was able to find the movie on YouTube with A seance scene which however does not seem to be the same scene (or at least a different angle) from the picture. If anyone has the time to scroll through all 4h of that movie the scene in the picture might be in there.

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Ich hab von cossu schonmal ein super witziges video gesehen wo er den Dialekt nach verschiedener Zeit im Schwarzwald nach macht konnte das aber eben nicht mehr finden. Falls wer nen Link hat wär ich dankbar ;)

Edit: Gefunden youtube.com/shorts/fJV1T2Vj2Fo?si=G0mWRae5J2aZB-6…

somenonewho,

I remember back in the day running Ubuntu and playing around with python. First I was doing some stuff in python 2 but then I realized python 3 exists and if I learn python I should learn the one that’s relevant for longer (hopefully) so, since I’d installed python 3 I figured python 2 will not be needed anymore so why not remove it. And let’s be extra clean and do a apt-get remove --purge python2.

I realized my mistake when I saw a bunch of unity-desktop packages being removed I cancelled the removal but a reboot later the machine was truly fucked … Well I decided I might as well reinstall.

Haven’t had this kind of broken in a while. I don’t think I ever bored any of my arch installs in a way I couldn’t recover from a Liveboot (yes I could have recovered the Ubuntu install but that was in the beginning of my journey and even today reinstalling would probably be quicker)

somenonewho,

Das so sehr. Ich bin richtig pissed auf Scooter seit sie existieren, einerseits weil sie überall als das große Heilsversprechen das die Mobilität revolutionert angepriesen wurden und andererseits den eh schon begrenzten Platz für fahrradfahrende und Fußgänger*innen einnehmen vor allem in ihrem geparkten Zustand

In all dem hab ich mir aber viel zu selten die Frage gestellt “warum sind diese Parkplätze hier” ich glaube vor allem weil die spaces auf denen Autos parken schon “immer” Autoparkplätze sind während die Scooter eben auf Fahrrad- und Fußwegen als Hindernis stehen.

Eine Überlegung die ich aber auch schon seit Einführung der Scooter hatte war wenn hier alle 2 spurigen Straßen eine Auto Spur verlieren und diese zur Fahrradspur wird dann kann ich mir die auch mit (fahrenden) Scooter teilen.

somenonewho,

And the nice people that use it

somenonewho,

Yup just wanted to comment that it’s basically the “Yes you can track me” button vs the “I will pay” button. A lot of news sites already do the same thing. Not a paywall with content you can only see when payed but a pay or give consent to ads (which means tracking)

somenonewho,

Damn I was wondering exactly that a few days ago. Once again lovely job from eff to clarify here.

somenonewho,

Oof altered carbon got me that hard. The first season is so confusing and amazing. The second season… Well

somenonewho,

Germany is actually well known for having very low grocery price

English language article that mentions this though the main subject of the article are the " true price of groceries including climate costs: www.dw.com/en/…/a-38976477)

This is largely done by price dumping the suppliers and low balling the workforce (as much as German labor laws allow) <- I’m aware I have no source for this I will try to dig one up tomorrow when I can

somenonewho,

A pound of ground beef or tofu is a third that price.

I understand what you’re trying to say here. But I just wanted to add, making a vegetarian/vegan burger is not as simple as grinding up a pound of tofu and sticking it together to fry in a pan. I’m not saying you have to buy some of the “no meat” brand burgers to make a nice vegan patty but simply substituting some meat with natural unprepared tofu and expecting a great tasting result is IMHO where a lot of people get their aversion to tofu (and often derived to all meat alternatives) from. (Source 15years of vegetarian eating and cooking) The fact that ready made vegan patties exist and taste great these days is awesome for someone like me who sometimes just wants to make a stupid simple tasty burger.

Tl;dr: Tasty vegan patties aren’t that simple.

I agree that people should be encouraged to cook more (I love doing it when I have time and it hits me). But simply declaring “nobody can cook anymore” and demanding people that might not have the time to prepare a home cooked meal in between their first and second job is not helping.

Of course the convenience of fast food and ready made meals is one of these classic situations where an “invention” that makes our life simpler and more convenient is a good reason why we don’t need all that time we save to ourselves anymore. i.e. you don’t need a lunch break when you can just microwave something up and eat it while continuing your work.

Sorry got kind of a long winded bit here. Hope it makes sense

somenonewho,

Took me a second to figure out that was the Nvidia drivers version number. I was wondering if gnome made another major version shift from 45 to 545 for a second :)

somenonewho,

Now name 10 distros that aren’t based on each other. And yes I’m counting the *buntus as being based on Debian.

If you look at the famous https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2023_Linux_Distributions_Timeline.svg there’s a fill out there but barely any reinvention of the wheel (not that that’s a bad thing).

somenonewho,

I love yes it is an amazing tool. I never had an actual use for it since any tool I might want to use it on (like apt) already has some kind of command line switch for it already

But I just once in a while stumble across yes again and run it for half a minute and have a chuckle.

Just like every time I read: www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html

somenonewho,

Sprich Deutsch du Hurensohn!

/s

somenonewho,

I understand and appreciate you trying to learn. I think one of the issues why nobody can really point you to a good resource is that there are no 100% neutral resources that document “the conflict”. Even just where/when you start something like a timeline can be biased.

Keeping all that in mind I have found a video that gives a short simplified summary of the base history.

youtu.be/1wo2TLlMhiw?si=_ANEgker8DzQZQxR

I liked it (might be part of my bias since I like crash course). But I’m sure there are mistakes in there and as above some details/framing might just be due to biases of the author’s/presenters etc.

somenonewho,

I love ThinkPads especially the “good old” ones. Especially for their accessibility of parts and easy repair/upgradability.

My personal laptop has been a Thinkpad since 2013 (Thinkpad Edge E135 > Thinkpad X220 > Thinkpad x260) and at work we are also given ThinkPads (currently running a T14 gen 3).

Most ThinkPads I encountered are also sturdy built and not Gleis together or some crap like that. However I recently had an issue with my x260’s power button no longer working and to get it to work I had to replace the top bezels. Well maybe to put it more bluntly I had to get a replacemt bezel and put my Thinkpad into it since to replace the bezel I had to take out almost everything and then put it back in the reverse order. The mere fact that I managed to do it and there are officiall step by step instructions on how to (hmm) are a big upside of ThinkPads. But like others have said it used to be even better.

Well long story short: I’ve recently preordered a framework 13 amd while I honestly would have preferred a “Thinkpad black” Chassis framework just seems to have the right idea to me.

somenonewho,

Yep. Use it at work every day (on Ubuntu). Gives you more features than the “oicial preview client” used to do (like custom video backgrounds and screen sharing on Wayland) but you can run it as a seperate app instead of just in your browser.

somenonewho,

Yeah. As someone running a NAS/Jellyfin server of a SBC/USB SSD I would love to pick up an x86 sffpc too properly put everything inside but idle power and quiet aren’t easily beat.

Software support olinwouldnt really agree since x86 gives a lot more options than ARM

somenonewho,

Smartphones have been “good enough” for a while now. Enough power and battery to do all the things needed for enough time before running out of battery.

IMHO there are 2 reasons we still regularly upgrade.

  1. “Obsolescence” wether it would be perceived new hardware features or just new software not being available
  2. Use/breakage (I include batteries dying in that) with no reasonable way to replace parts

I’ve had a few phones over the years some of them I “legitimately” just broke (one had a cracked mb after a bike accident) I broke my second to last phone trying to replace the battery (thought I would be able to, broke the screen). The fact that everything is glued down and made to not be replaceable irked me so much that my current phone is a Fairphone. Replacing the battery takes 1 minute and requires no tools. Replacing the screen takes like 5 min and 8 screws. I plan on using this phone for at least 5 years more if possible. But I understand not everybody can shell out 600 dollars for an “OK” phone.

somenonewho,

So. I’ve seen the some more news video as well as the Technology Connections one. I have not see the Unlearning Economics one (but it’s going on my docket for tomorrow).

Basically the Some more News video is just a simple overview on the concept of Planned Obsolescence i.e. the idea that some things are designed/engineered in a way so they will break easier/faster than they normally would or made in such a way that a repair is not economically viable so that instead of keeping/repairing a product a customer has to buy a new regularly.

One if the most famous and oldest examples is the lightbulb cartel where lightbulb manufacturer actually had a contract that limited how long a lightbulb would live to 1000h (including penalties if the manufacturers produced longer living bulbs). Iirc Cody mentioned that one in his video as well (I will watch all 3 vida back to back tomorrow just to straighten things out here).

Now this “Phoebus” cartel as it was called is exactly what the Technology Connections video is about. However Alecs point is a different one. He is basically saying that while it was true the cartel limited the Lifetime it also meant they were producing “better” bulbs. Namely ones that would burn brighter while using the same amount of power as ones that would last longer. His second point is that lightbulbs are more or less a “spare part” i.e. they are cheap and easy to replace (usually) so if one breaks you don’t have to throw away your nightlamp or whatever it is attached to you simply replace the bulb with a cheap replacement and you’re good.

So basically the Technology Connections Videos Thesis is the Phoebus Cartell wasn’t actually planned obsolescence but a move to a better lightbulb and a bit more runtime (2.5x in his example) isn’t worth the worse light output.

somenonewho,

At work I use Ubuntu which comes with Firefox by default so yeah I use the default.

At home with arch I have to download one anyway … so I use Firefox.

There has been only a brief period since I first started using Firefox that I used another browser as my main (chrome/chromium back when Netflix only worked on it properly) When Firefox rolled out “quantum” I jumped back never regretted it. Still one of the only remaining browsers.

somenonewho,

Nothing. Also everything.

You can probably do most of not all of the things I do on Linux on a regular basis on windows just as well. But at this point I feel like I have a reverse “Windows is the default” effect going on since for me Linux has been and is the default for over 10 years.

When I start work in the morning I turn on my Linux laptop to ssh into some Linux servers (and RDP to the occasional windows servers/desktops).

After work I play games on my Linux handheld or do some work on my Linux desktop. Maybe move some files on my Linux Nas.

Like I said I could probably do all of this on windows. It would be a major change and in would have to relearn some things in addition to figuring out how to do some stuff on windows that I just never do. But at this point why even bother. There are a lot of ideological reasons to move to Linux there might be some technical reasons on either side but I just don’t have any pull to use windows unless I need to (some special program/firmware updater whatever) for which I do have an install hanging around, which I boot once in 6months or so

somenonewho,

Ich seh Grad auf bundestag.de und bei kurzem Google nichts zu diesem “Arbeitslosengeld 1 abschaffen” hat wer ne Quelle um welchen Vorschlag es da ging?

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  • OpenOffice
  • Firefox
  • Thunderbird
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As a repairability and sustainability advocate … This is good news.

As a Fairphone 4 owner … This is bad news for my resolve 😅 when I got my Fairphone I decided that I want to use it for at least the 5 years they guarantee updates and replacement parts … So I guess I’m stuck now … Which isn’t a bad place to be I love my Fairphone 4 it’s great … I just still have the “new shiny thing” mentality stuck somewhere

somenonewho,

I haven’t driven a whole lot of cars and none of them were old as dirt pickup trucks but I’ve seen enough where the idle gas was not enough to get the car rolling on an incline without stalling it. Sometimes you just need a good handbrake start

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Honestly in wouldn’t even be comfortable doing the “call taxi” one. Straight out is still to close :D

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Mint. I just don’t get it. It’s Ubuntu but “different”? I heard a lot of people have issues with it. But also a lot of people love it and always recommend it.

To be fair I never used it and it’s probably fine/great but I just have a weird unfounded hate for it

somenonewho,

Yeah I don’t quite see how this is supposed to work either. They say they send the traffic to the intercepting server and then forward it to the “real” VPN server to actually establish the connection. But unless they can actually crack any of the encryption, all they have is the encrypted traffic to and from the sever if I’m not mistaken … So what they do with that I’m unsure.

somenonewho,

I don’t know how the Frank-N-Furter memes started but I’m totally along for the ride. Love this moment in the song.

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To anyone who is as confused by this as I was when I first saw it. They basically want to teach a way to "solve" more complicated additions by first "getting to ten", so if you want to add 8+9 it's the same as adding 8+2 (from the nine) then you have 10 and then you add the remaining 7. (And 10+7 is obvious).

Also the dots are a visualization of the process (each number represented with as many dots so you "take" two dots from the 9 (turning it into a 7) and "give" them to the 8 (willing it up to 10) so you "made" a 10.

So the right answer here is, as I understand it:

8+2+7=8+9=17

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