TimeSquirrel

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TimeSquirrel, (edited )

What's up, I'm 42 years old. USSR collapsed over 30 years ago, it's irrelevant. Like the person said, modern Russia doesn't have 900+ bases around the world. The US was an unchallenged hyperpower for a long time and definitely took advantage of that fact.

We went through all this shit with Afghanistan and Iraq and now we're supposed to believe the US is helping out simply because they feel sorry for Ukraine? Countries don't just do things without a good motivation.

TimeSquirrel,

Everybody says that...but I'd like to see Russia try. And if they resort to nukes, they'll be erased in a day. They may be Russian, but they're not stupid or suicidal.

TimeSquirrel,

That was between them and Ukraine though. Not NATO. Very different power dynamic there. They don't feel threatened by Ukraine.

TimeSquirrel,

dont use parental controls

That's how you get your kid to encounter MLP porn. Or worse, discover Gab and 4chan.

TimeSquirrel,

If your kids are motivated enough, they will find a way around it.

Reminds me of my local public library in 1997. They had these public computers for people that didn't yet have Internet access, and the browsers were locked down and stripped with just "back", "forward", "refresh" buttons and a URL address bar.

However, there was a tiny question mark icon in the corner that when clicked, brought up the Windows help system (that browser thing that can navigate help topics). There was a link in there to open IE and go to a support page, and when clicked would launch the full Internet Explorer with a complete menu over top of the kiosk interface, and this browser instance was not restricted in what it could access like the kiosk browser was (I believe it may have been a custom version of Mosaic).

TimeSquirrel,

Who said I'd never talk to them about it? I'd just like to do it in a controlled manner at an appropriate age and prepare them without them seeing the most depraved shit right off the bat. Is that unreasonable?

Don't assume the intentions of other people.

TimeSquirrel, (edited )

I use a combo of Pihole + OpenDNS with filters. And my kid's user account does not have privileges to change network settings. Yet. Things will be enabled one by one in due time until he's in 100% control of his own computer.

And if he actually knows what a DNS server is and is digging around for the setting, and trying to hack my shit, then I'd say he's ready for the "adult" computing world.

TimeSquirrel,

You know what's nice? Being able to sit down at any Linux distro and being able to set up and configure services without Googling how to use that particular distro's init system.

Trump Lawyer Makes Disturbing Immunity Claim Before Supreme Court: Apparently, John Sauer thinks staging a coup should be considered a presidential act (newrepublic.com)

Donald Trump’s lawyer pushed an outrageous line of thinking on Thursday during oral arguments at the Supreme Court over whether the former president has immunity for trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election: that a U.S. president could order a military coup d’état with almost no chance of repercussions....

TimeSquirrel,

Constitution is a piece of old paper. What matters is if enough people give a shit about it anymore.

TimeSquirrel,

It was awesome back when during the install you could just select "LAMP", and a full stack web server suite would be automatically set up and configured correctly out of the box. But those days are long gone.

TimeSquirrel,

Yeah now they do. Back in the early 2000s, I only remember Ubuntu having just a single option to install everything needed to be up and running on first boot. Everything else needed some tweaking of configs and quite a bit of domain knowledge to get started at the time. It's what jumpstarted me into PHP development.

TimeSquirrel,

While funny to imagine...please let's not. I got a kid to raise, I don't want to raise one in a civil war. I know for sure some of the "SEAL team 6" members wouldn't very much like being turned on government officials, especially if their politics align.

TimeSquirrel, (edited )

"./configure"

"error: libblahblah1.0.0-2 not found"

downloads tarball

"tar –xvzf libblahblah1.0.0-2.tar.gz"

"./configure"

"error: libblahblah1.0.0-2 depends on libgofuckyourself.2.0.0"

downloads tarball

"tar -xvzf libgofuckyourself.2.0.0.tar.gz"

"./configure"

"error: libblahblah1.0.0-2 not found"

🤯😡🤬

Can you imagine we did this shit over dialup too? I was there. In the dark times.

TimeSquirrel,

Tankies are just fascists who like the color red.

When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick".

-M. Bakunin

TimeSquirrel,

You don't get it because you have never felt uncomfortable in your own body. Your brain's perceived gender matches your physical sex characteristics. Wearing pants as a male or a dress as a female didn't feel "wrong" to you. For some, it does.

TimeSquirrel,

I heard a good comparison on here a while ago: Github is to Git as Pornhub is to porn.

TimeSquirrel,

I dunno, Stallman, it's been 30 years, you got something for us?

TimeSquirrel,

"They're gunna take er jerbs"

"I see, so you're really wanting to do drywalling, masonry, landscaping, roofing, or janitorial work?"

"Well, no..."

Are there any discrepancies between the resources an OS uses when running in a virtual machine vs being ran directly?

I recently found out about a Linux Distro named Q4OS and I wanted to test out their claim that it only requires 256 MB of ram when using the trinity desktop environment. However, when I used the live cd in virt-manager with 256 MB or ram, it just kernel panicked at boot. So I then tried it with 512 MB of ram. In addition to some...

TimeSquirrel, (edited )

A container is just an environment where it appears to any program running within it that it has full access to the computer, while in reality it's "jailed" and isolated from the rest of the system. The OS resources are shared with the container, instead of the hardware resources as in a virtual machine. There's no hardware being emulated. It's a beefed up version of a chroot.

TimeSquirrel,

I'm in my 40s, and finally decided to give C/C++ a serious go and try to learn them at a competent level after decades of putting it off, and now everybody wants to move to Rust.

TimeSquirrel,

I'm at the level of finally understanding pointers, templates, and operator/function overloads and using them pretty effortlessly now. I looked at some Rust code. I'm not sure I have the brain plasticity to take that on at my age now without massive struggling.

TimeSquirrel,

Oh my. Imma have to sit down with a blunt on this one and take it in. Lots to unpack.

TimeSquirrel,

This is why I enjoy programming libraries only I will ever use. "Do I need to account for user ignorance and run a bunch of early exit conditions at the beginning of this function to avoid throwing an exception? Naww, fuck it, I know what I'm doing."

TimeSquirrel,

I have 12 cores and 64 GB RAM. I am not worried about "bloat". The people trying to keep 20 year old Thinkpads running are.

TimeSquirrel,

Sounds like a web based spreadsheet. Being able to insert and edit data using friendly web forms but not needing to know SQL commands.

TimeSquirrel,

Human readable code:

// do stuff 100 times
for (int x = 0; x < 100; x++) {
do.stuff();
}

After compiling might look like:

1011 1100 1011 1011 and so on and so forth, which corresponds directly to cells in a memory chip being switched on or off, which are the instructions that get fed to your CPU to do everything your program does in the machine.

TimeSquirrel,

Its whole body is a programming sock. It doesn't need them.

TimeSquirrel,

But most of those were extremely shitty or niche and got abandoned. Except Mandrake. That one was pretty good but I think I remember they were constantly having funding issues.

Mandrake was to Redhat as Ubuntu is to Debian now.

TimeSquirrel,

A huge amount of security camera NVRs run Linux, so that's something.

TimeSquirrel,

"Mid-life" is about 40-50, right? Some of us Millennials are already in our early 40s. You might mean the Zoomers. We old now yo.

TimeSquirrel,

I'm actually using it because it's easier. I do hobby programming, and I like having every utility I would ever need related to that just one command away. Need a hex editor? It's in the repository. Need a calculator that can convert binary to decimal? Also in the repository. IDEs/plugins/compilers? Repository.

TimeSquirrel,

I started my embedded engineering journey by blinking an LED on a PIC microcontroller back in 2007. Maybe you can toss them an Arduino development board. Programming by itself could be boring and tedious, but seeing your program actually do things in the real world could be exciting, at least it was for me. There's so much to branch to from there, everything from industrial automation to vehicle navigation to robotics.

TimeSquirrel,

Is this the equivalent of a PC maker in 2024 going "yeah, I don't think we are going to put a floppy drive in anymore..."?

TimeSquirrel,

We can fill the holes back in once they're all in there.

Help with HDD

I have a 4TB HDD that I use to store music, films, images, and text files. I have a 250GB SDD that I use to install my OS and video games. So far I didn’t have any problem with this setup, obviously it’s a bit slower when it reads the HDD but nothing too serious, but lately it’s gotten way worse, where it just lags too...

TimeSquirrel,

We’ve been making them for many years and have gotten very good at it.

This can't be overstated enough. Modern mechanical hard drives are a hundred times more impressive than Swiss watches.

TimeSquirrel,

a valuable and required skill for any future job - basic Windows and Office usage.

Not everybody is a data-entry drone. I have no use for it, and I have a technical career.

TimeSquirrel,

There's nothing that anyone can do in 2024 in the MS Office suite of applications specifically that I can't find a third party or cloud equivalent of to do the exact same thing.

TimeSquirrel,

Those might be tears.

TimeSquirrel,

Yeah, you only have to look at these once. Absolutely no point except eye-candy for a fleeting moment.
.I don't even care for graphical boots. Give me all the boot messages scrolling by.

TimeSquirrel,

Dude chill! There may be minors here.

TimeSquirrel,

It's fucking infuriating to think about the fact that these fucknuts affect my life and decide certain things for it. Religion is gonna have an iron grip on society until the day I die, isn't it?

TimeSquirrel,

Of course the Lemmyverse would know all about that, wouldn't it?

TimeSquirrel,

Is this just fantasy?

TimeSquirrel,

Don't be so sure, plenty of technically inclined people exist on the right. A lot of old Gen-X and Boomer tech graybeards are sucked into this shit.

TimeSquirrel,

I'm gaming on Debian stable just fine. I don't get what everyone's thing with bleeding edge software all the time is. To me, "bleeding edge" means "higher chance for something to break and blow up in your face".

I'll wait until the bleeding edge distro users got hit with all the bugs first. My preferences were just justified by the recent xz backdoor stuff.

TimeSquirrel,

Seems to work just fine on my 2022 Gigabyte brand mobo with a 12-core AM5 socket Ryzen and Nvidia 3070ti GPU. Maybe it has trouble on things like laptops, which often have weird shit put in by their manufacturers? Or are you defining "very new" as "just released this month"?

TimeSquirrel, (edited )

They are in denial about it too when I moved to Baltimore and found out other regions don't have 24/7 parking lots instead of roads, and then mentioned this fact on a forum full of Northern Virginians. Everybody started bringing up 495 around Bethesda, but like, yeah, that's technically still the DC metro region even though its MD, not VA. The further you get from DC, the more normal traffic becomes.

I fucking dread it when I have a jobsite in VA, because then I always have to add an hour and a half to a trip that should take 45 minutes.

I think in 20 years we are going to see some detrimental effects on the local economy of that place if nobody can get anywhere anymore in a reasonable amount of time in a place where public transportation is absolutely shit. The Metro needs to extend down to Fredericksburg and out west all the way to Manassas, but that'll never happen. Some people deal with up to 3 hour commutes, that's fucking bananas.

TimeSquirrel,

There's nothing wrong with charging for your FOSS. You can't, however, force anybody who gets it from you to also charge the people they end up distributing it to like some sort of Ponzi scheme. The transactional relationship between you, your software, and another party ends at the first level.

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