When we were renovating our apartment, we found one of the neighbors outlet connected to our fusebox. Originally it was a company owned building for employees to rent, so nobody gave a shit about how the utilities were connected.

One could argue the vests are like seat belts in a car. You don't need them 99.9% of the time.

If you can't say 'fuck', you can't say 'fuck David Cameron with a piece of slightly undercooked broccoli'

• Dan Bull

The Lust series is pretty good. It's a horror game similar to Amnesia or Penumbra, except you're infiltrating a sex cult.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1170820/Lust_from_Beyond_Prologue/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1401680/Lust_from_Beyond_Scarlet/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/523650/Lust_for_Darkness/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1035120/Lust_from_Beyond/

edit: ... and yes, after I bought these, steam has bombarded me with the most ridiculous erotic game suggestions for months!

Publicly spreading the faces of people you’re accusing of a crime

That would be a sound argument if they weren't doing the crime right there on the video.

I actually like those, and started to watch the channel regularly after the house remodeling series.

What's barely sufferable are the "we bought stuff from the internet and here it is. check out our sponsor..." videos that's been published a lot lately.

IKEA devices apparently work very well with Aqara

When it comes to zigbee devices, don't combine the aqara wall switches with large (4 buttons) ikea remotes.

The wall switches tend to execute the commands from the remotes instead of just routing them to the coordinator.

My Zigbee network also improved a lot when I set up some IKEA plugs in the loft.

I have similar experience with the ikea bulbs. More of them I connect, more stable the whole network gets.

It's just that I rarely see a real person be so confidently wrong.

We've already established that language models just make shit up. There is no need to demonstrate. Bad bot!

I host 2 ejabberd servers. One casual, federated, the other one standalone, for work.

• Conversations is a decent android client that supports modern XMPP standards
• Dino on the desktop. It just happen to support the same subset of standards as Conversations, so they work pretty well together.

For Mastodon, I'm using an Akkoma instance hosted by a frind of mine

• Tusky works pretty well with it. There were certain annoying bugs when I combined the official Mastodon app with Akkoma.

Every once in a while I try Matrix, but each time I try to log in, Synapse is is fucked in a different way. I have to scrap it up and start from the ground up some day.

• Only the element based clients so far, because every alternative lack certain features.

I'm a big fan of Nostr, because of one particular feature - You control your identity without having to selfhost a server. The network seems to be occupied by the christian-carnivore-bitcoin-conservatives so far, therefor it's pretty bland when it comes to content.

• Amethyst on Android
• Gossip on the desktop. This one requires a certain knowledge of the protocol. Each action needs to be manually triggered.

For some special use cases I have Signal, but most of the time, Telegram is the best the average person can do to meet me in the middle.

We hate the AI and proof of work, yet DEMAND someone to moderate our inboxes. For free.

• an average lemming

That's not a slow laptop. I've been daily driving worse for years.

To protect the data from random thief just browsing through the files I still use ecryptfs. It only encrypts the home directory, and the keys are derived from my accounts password, so no extra hassle.

The encryption is weak by the current standards, and wouldn't stop a determined attacker, but it's 100% better than nothing, and I've never noticed any performance problems.

Pidgin was decent, but remember Miranda? The community around it was fantastic. The plugin system was an absolute blast. Not only there were plugins for any communication network you could think of, the UX was fully customizable.

At one point, somebody even bothered to implement the ICQ flash animations. There has not been anything like it ever since.

If a communication software has terms of service, run away!

Sure. Let's protect the proper culture. Like Fast and Furious 10, or the 60th marvel superhero movie rehash :P

Gmail offers imap amd smtp access. You have to enable 2FA, and then it will allow you to create account for so called "less secure apps".

In your place, I'd either continue using gmail directly, or finish the configuration of the self hosted mail server and just use that with any smtp/imap client. I suggest getting a separate domain for testing first, before moving your primary inbox there.

Yes. Screw the small businesses. All that competition is just fraud and burden to the real corporations :D /s

3d printer is subtracted from revenue for tax purposes

That makes sense. Since my profits always oscillated around zero, claiming any expenses had no practical effect.

legitimately running a business, or just trying to save money on their hobby

That's actually how it started. We've installed linux on some old desktop machine with my classmate back in school, set up some services like webhosting, mail, jabber, and started to give access to people for free. No guarantees, no pressure. As we finished school, trying to turn it into a business was a logical next step. It never went big, but we just kept the thing around, bought newer hardware, moved it to a proper housing, did basic maintenance, and years later, here I am owing to the government thanks to my highschool hobby.

Well, I fell into a bracket that's taxed (it's not officially called a tax, but that's what it is) by a certain fixed minimal amount. Thanks to my total revenue being relatively low, it makes an absurd amount percentage-wise.

IRS will audit you, and could deem you a hobby

Are there any negative consequences? I'd prefer to be downgraded to a hobbyist. Instead, the government has increased my taxes to around 70% of my yearly revenue. Social democracy, fuck yeah!

We can tell you probably have an emotion if you use one, we just can't be sure what emotion. The emoji you type is almost certainly not the one we see.

Wasn't the new motherboard released even before the OLED?

If a vendor strangely insist on not working on a new product, it's lying.

In this case it's obvious, considering we already got 2 minor revisions of steamdeck HW.

The usefulnes of a system is often measured by the amount of illegal shit it can handle. Nobody would really use a stick or a fire if it required a law enforcement officer standing behind you the whole time.

On the other hand, Telegram was always intentionally not secure, nor private. So it's not that thay can't comply. They just decided not to (as far as we know).

- - tinfoil hat on - -

This is not really about moderation. The europeans just want to evasdrop on the russians.

- - tinfoil hat off - -

When some internet stranger manage to enrage me more than usual, I sign up for a porn site with their email address.

Who did you piss off lately? :)

Downvotes are why I'm here!

Social media without downvotes are just propaganda mills, reinforcing bad behavior.

It's just funny how we were looking for degradable plastics for years so we don't have to burn it, just to find out the degraded plastic particles are the real problem, and burning it was actually the less unhealthy option.

if you don't need to resize it once it's created

xfs_growfs is a thing. I know nothing about xfs. Is this something I should avoid for some reason?

https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/6/html/storage_administration_guide/xfsgrow

You, and 62 other people did not read the article.

Until you get a message that says just "server is not working". Which one? Not working how? Who the hell are you, name@gmail.com?

How do you even respond to that? Unless you want to sound like an ashole, and spend an hour exchanging messages, you have to call back. I hate it so much!

Steam provides it's own linux userspace runtime. The game developers just target that to avoid the problem you describe.

stupidity is a once-off

🎶 ...this iiiiis my one an only wiiiiiiish! 🎶

What is it with the silent T?

Sounds like fun, but I wish we had a real multiplatform GUI framework that does not look like ass and does not perform like ass, so we can put the whole shameful electron era behind us.

Pffft, the young generation, not hardened by the 6 different download buttons on a torrent search engine... /s

I suffer from several chronic issues myself. I have brutal alergies that makes me feel like I'm drowning at least for one week in spring and one week in autumn. I also have a tinnitus, and have to deal with not geting a break from auditory stimuli.

I get sharing the burden and exchanging information with others. It's a valid coping mechanism. But I'd never in a million years demand others be born ill, just so they can share the suffering with me. If a piece of culture dies together with all autoimmune diseases, I'll celebrate it's demise, and be happy those who come after me won't have to share it with me.

When it comes to culture, I'd be open to schools teaching sign language instead of a second foreign language. It's pretty cool form of communication that can be useful even for the healthy folks. But then you risk the eternal september type of event anyway. The culture would change with sudden increase of users.

The only thing worse than public voting is public voting that's falsely advertised as private.

uname -a

Updates depend on the specific distro. Some, like debian, keep the major version the same throughout the entire lifetime, just backporting the security fixes, others, like arch, follows the official major releases more closely.

TIL: Some people actually like their laptop to wake up after openning the lid!

I've used Elitebooks with elementary for years and found the wakup after pressing a button logical.

What pissed me off about probooks/elitebooks was that they woke up to inform me about the low battery, then went back to sleep due to low battery, then wake up, sleep, wake up, sleep, wake up... and the agony went on until the sweet death. I've never felt so sorry for a non living object before or after.

Oh, and also elementary can't go to sleep from the lockscreen, on any hardware. One of those those bugs that I'm always sure will be taken care of in the next release, but it never is.

Oh, my nick is actually derived from my name, I can hear Ok-ish.

I've only ever seen deaf and hard of hearing people being upset about the implants as a bad movie trope and had no idea it's a real thing.

Many older people tend to be sceptical about complicated medical procedures in general. That I can partially understand. If I've lived with something my entire productive life, the preceived risks might outweigh the possible benefits.