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  1. Comment on Growing a beard. Tips and tricks, please! in ~life.style

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    Maybe. I can consider it certainly

    Maybe. I can consider it certainly

  2. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Survival Weekly in ~games

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    Had a good working iron farm yesterday when I disconnected. Tonight, it is devoid of villagers and they took flipping ages to get in. This is the kind of thing that kept ruining my plays through...

    Had a good working iron farm yesterday when I disconnected.

    Tonight, it is devoid of villagers and they took flipping ages to get in. This is the kind of thing that kept ruining my plays through in the past. Perhaps I should have name tagged them or something.

    Sad times.

    I wonder if it was pillagers? The farm counts as a village. I know that Tea (no blame here) was AFK in my wheat farm last night.

    If I get more villagers I'll have to pillager proof the farm, it's the only thing I can think of as the entire island is proof from surface spawns.

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  3. Comment on PlayStation Network is still down after fourteen hours and no one knows why in ~games

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    I think they used it for Rise, right? I really like Rise

    I think they used it for Rise, right? I really like Rise

  4. Comment on PlayStation Network is still down after fourteen hours and no one knows why in ~games

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    It's awful on PC and just about meh on PS5 from what I see. The benchmark allegedly has greater optimisation than the beta, and it's still poor. Was considering delaying my proposed video card...

    It's awful on PC and just about meh on PS5 from what I see.

    The benchmark allegedly has greater optimisation than the beta, and it's still poor.

    Was considering delaying my proposed video card purchase for it, and upgrading to a 5 Pro instead, but that's colossally expensive considering my library is >50% physical and I'd need the drive too.

    Plus I've not seen performance reports from the 5 Pro yet either.

    Game's a mess :(

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  5. Comment on Framework 13 chassis available for $400 in ~comp

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    Maybe. I do think their RISC V board is quite tasty. I'd love a RISC V laptop. I did purchase a new laptop a couple of years ago when I chose /not/ to support Framework, so I'm going to have to...

    Maybe. I do think their RISC V board is quite tasty. I'd love a RISC V laptop.

    I did purchase a new laptop a couple of years ago when I chose /not/ to support Framework, so I'm going to have to get life out of that (and as a 13th gen intel, 32GB RAM, 2T NVMe, it's going to last a while).

    I might have mellowed on them in another 4 years or so when I need to look around again.

    Really like their designs and the modularity and repairability. That's all right up my street too.

    1 vote
  6. Comment on Framework 13 chassis available for $400 in ~comp

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    Big as in high profile. I remember him. I have no idea who was in Series A-1 investment

    Big as in high profile. I remember him. I have no idea who was in Series A-1 investment

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  7. Comment on Framework 13 chassis available for $400 in ~comp

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    Is Linus still a big investor? I've been avoiding framework since then. He soured me on the company.

    Is Linus still a big investor? I've been avoiding framework since then. He soured me on the company.

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  8. Comment on UK orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts in ~tech

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    It seems to go along with the online safety act which is causing many small sites like lobste.rs and others just to leave the UK rather than incur the expense and risk of continuing to allow UK...

    It seems to go along with the online safety act which is causing many small sites like lobste.rs and others just to leave the UK rather than incur the expense and risk of continuing to allow UK citizens to access their sites.

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  9. Comment on Single most useful program you daily use? in ~tech

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    Tried a recent Thunderbird? I think it's great now. It lagged behind terribly for years, but it really properly leaped in quality over the last few years

    Tried a recent Thunderbird? I think it's great now. It lagged behind terribly for years, but it really properly leaped in quality over the last few years

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  10. Comment on Single most useful program you daily use? in ~tech

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    WSL2 is independent of docker desktop. Indeed, it allows you to run Linux containers without the use of the expensive docker desktop. What you may be thinking of, is that Docker Desktop requires...

    WSL2 is independent of docker desktop. Indeed, it allows you to run Linux containers without the use of the expensive docker desktop.

    What you may be thinking of, is that Docker Desktop requires Windows Virtualisation to work, as does WSL2.

    Both things take advantage of Windows Virtualisation Host

    I think I'm explaining this cromulently, I'm no windows expert by any means.

    I do know that there was a bit of an exodus to running containers on WSL2 after docker introduced their desktop fees.

    Definitely use WSL2 over WSL though. WSL was a bit rubbish

    You can run X11 programs in WSL2 now too, and they use windows as your display manager without extra software.

    I'm a fan of WSL2, lol. I run Tumbleweed in mine, fwiw

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  11. Comment on UK orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts in ~tech

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    I do too. However, the compulsion to disclose credentials or go to jail was introduced under Labour the last time they were in. They've been authoritarian for a long time. Store the output of a...

    I do too. However, the compulsion to disclose credentials or go to jail was introduced under Labour the last time they were in. They've been authoritarian for a long time.

    Store the output of a few GB of /dev/urandom on your drive and you could absolutely go to jail for it. Can't provide a working decryption key for that. Won't believe your assertion that it's just random data. Off to jail with you.

    10 votes
  12. Comment on Tildes feels like the last bastion of the Information Superhighway in ~tildes

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    Yes! Escaped by being ... old

    Besides, not all the Linux-user techies here are men in their 30s/40s

    Yes! Escaped by being ... old

    14 votes
  13. Comment on Single most useful program you daily use? in ~tech

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    The biggest wrench for me is compose files. I have a lot of compose stacks for standing up little applications for development and testing, and they never work right on podman, it always feels...

    The biggest wrench for me is compose files. I have a lot of compose stacks for standing up little applications for development and testing, and they never work right on podman, it always feels wrong and forced. I really should investigate if I can do that better. Is that something you encounter at all?

  14. Comment on Single most useful program you daily use? in ~tech

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    Yep. Running rootless and with no daemon was my primary motivation for moving to podman. I still have to use Docker for work though, and everyone, but everyone calls them docker images. Docker is...

    Yep. Running rootless and with no daemon was my primary motivation for moving to podman.

    I still have to use Docker for work though, and everyone, but everyone calls them docker images. Docker is the hoover (xerox) of container images.

    Even though what I just said "Docker for work", that's on servers, on my work laptop under wsl2 I run containers through podman, because systemd is such a pain on wsl2 and who wants to be bothered with systemd and daemons on that platform. Not I.

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  15. Comment on Growing a beard. Tips and tricks, please! in ~life.style

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    I do like a mutton chop, Hugh Jackman's Wolverine is my favorite look, haha

    I do like a mutton chop, Hugh Jackman's Wolverine is my favorite look, haha

  16. Comment on Single most useful program you daily use? in ~tech

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    I mount my nextcloud to my computers with rclone so I can use it as a mounted file system (for such it is). No silly syncing.

    I mount my nextcloud to my computers with rclone so I can use it as a mounted file system (for such it is). No silly syncing.

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  17. Comment on Looking for some recommendations for games where you can build your own spaceships etc in ~games

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    No-one has mentioned Kerbal Space Program yet. Build ships, fly them. Inevitably crash.

    No-one has mentioned Kerbal Space Program yet.

    Build ships, fly them. Inevitably crash.

    2 votes
  18. Comment on Looking for some recommendations for games where you can build your own spaceships etc in ~games

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    It really needed a parts delivery system (amongst other things of course). Who wants to upgrade their starship by flying it, er, clicking through some travel menus, to another shipyard somewhere....

    It really needed a parts delivery system (amongst other things of course).

    Who wants to upgrade their starship by flying it, er, clicking through some travel menus, to another shipyard somewhere. Why can't I have my parts delivered for a fee?!

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  19. Comment on As Internet enshittification marches on, here are some of the worst offenders in ~tech

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    I wasn't daily driving it back then, it was a curiosity. Slackware. Slackware '95 was a big improvement but it wasn't until it became widely available on CD ROMS (thank you, Walnut Creek and the...

    I wasn't daily driving it back then, it was a curiosity. Slackware. Slackware '95 was a big improvement but it wasn't until it became widely available on CD ROMS (thank you, Walnut Creek and the other vendors of Linux CDs) that I regularly started using it, and indeed, a partial switch happened after XP when all my productivity workload shifted to Linux full time. Having a great gaming experience is somewhat more recent though. Even so I sidestepped that by getting in to consoles. Only since around 2020 have I been gaming on desktop Linux distributions.

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  20. Comment on As Internet enshittification marches on, here are some of the worst offenders in ~tech

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    You're far more accepting of built in obsolescence than I am.

    You're far more accepting of built in obsolescence than I am.

    8 votes