twinnie

joined 2 years ago
[–] twinnie 10 points 13 hours ago (5 children)

For breakfast I can get a whole socially acceptable meal by pouring milk over cereal, and then I can wash up by running it under a tap. I’m not missing an opportunity like that.

[–] twinnie 13 points 14 hours ago (7 children)

I’m obviously out of the loop. We have a new Captain America?

[–] twinnie -3 points 21 hours ago
[–] twinnie 1 points 21 hours ago

I actually think this is somewhere that AI could help out, just cranking out loads of mundane little features to give a place depth. I’m looking forward to the possibility of games where you can walk around a whole building because it’s all being generated on the fly by AI.

[–] twinnie 3 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Where do you live that you’re getting raided by the police? This sounds like one of those situations where they might use the wrench technique.

[–] twinnie 16 points 22 hours ago

I don’t really see the point. If someone’s trying to access my data it’s most likely to be from kind of remote exploit so encryption won’t help me. If someone’s breaks into my house and steals my computer I doubt they’ll be clever enough to do anything with it. I guess there’s the chance that they might sell it online and it gets grabbed by someone who might do something, but most of my important stuff is protected with two factor authentication. It’s getting pretty far fetched that someone might be able to crack all my passwords and access things that way.

It’s far more likely that it’s me trying to recover data and I’ve forgotten my password for the drive.

[–] twinnie 0 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

It’s true though. But to keep the economy stable it would have meant standing aside while Russia took Ukraine. Republicans are exactly the kind of people who like to brag about all the things America has done to help the world while not wanting to those things in the first place.

[–] twinnie 6 points 23 hours ago

Lyra’s a piffle-diffle. Why would anyone glorify the flying guy with superhuman strength who goes around using his powers to help people?

[–] twinnie 8 points 1 day ago

Look up “working holiday visas” if you’re under 30. It’s a process to encourage people to get world experience while they’re young. I’m sure if you found somewhere you liked you could then try and get something more permanent.

[–] twinnie 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was alive during the dot com bubble and I don’t think normal people even noticed it. The web was a lot less centralised back in those days and stayed that way for a while. The websites that people were actually using didn’t go anywhere when the bubble burst but there was a lot more website turnover in those days anyway. People were always moving to a better newer service and there were multiple search engines that people used. Then AltaVista turned up and that was the engine to use, until Google turned up and everyone started using that. I still remember when Google was this cool new thing that most people hadn’t heard of.

[–] twinnie 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Nokia were crazy back in the day but I think people may remember them a bit too fondly. I remember how whenever there was some new tech or idea they would absolutely trickle them out just to try and squeeze as much money out of you as possible. If there were two new pieces of tech they’d release two phones, with each of them having one of the new pieces of tech. Back in those days they just refused to make the absolute best phone possible. That’s one of the biggest changes that came from the iPhone.

 

Hi. Sorry if this is a really generic question but I’m looking to upgrade my server and wondering if there’s some standout solution. I’m currently running an old Dell Poweredge T20 which has been fine but I’m running into issues with driver support because it’s all considered legacy now being nearly 10 years old. I wouldn’t mind upgrading the mobo, CPU and RAM but I really don’t need it to be too powerful. I’m just running Plex, Frigate, Home Assistant, and a few other small things. I need GPU for Frigate and I can’t get the onboard HD4600 on mine to work with Debian. I have a TPU for the AI stuff but I need support for videos rendering.

Are there any cheap mATX combos that are good and cheap, something like £100 and low power?

 

So I was using Tumbleweed on my old laptop but I got kind of sick of all the updates; I felt like that icon showing I had updates available just had a permanent space on my screen. Every time I refreshed I had at least 200mb of updates to do. So when I got my new laptop I went with Leap instead.

But what’s the actual difference? So the OS only gets updated once a year or so does it? Are smaller releases more forthcoming? What if there’s other packages that get updated? Do I have to wait a year to get the latest version or are they updated more regularly? I’m wondering if I should look at Slowroll as I don’t want to be waiting a year for new features.

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submitted 3 months ago by twinnie to c/debian@lemmy.ml
 

Morning everybody. I’ve got a server at home running Debian and I handle everything over SSH aside from file transfers for which I use webmin. I’d be trying to get Frigate working on it using Podman but couldn’t get it to find the hardware I was passing to it and got pissed off and gave up, that was a few weeks ago and everything was fine. The Podman container had its own user and I’d set it up so I couldn’t access the containers with any other users, even with sudo. I’ve gone back to it this morning and found that when i try to sudo su in (which is what I normally do) i get “This account is currently not available”. I checked everything my friendly AI hero suggested but I couldn’t figure out why it had locked. The last reference in journalctl was me closing the session and there was no records of failed logins or fail2ban being triggered. I had the ! in the shadow file and passwd was showing me an L to say it was locked. In the end I gave up trying to figure out why it had locked because I couldn’t see evidence of anything dodgy so I just went to unlock it. I’ve tried passwd -u and I’ve remember the ! and rebooted but it still won’t unlock.

I suspect Podman may have done something but I’m pretty sure I stopped the containers before I last logged off because I got sick of them filling the log files up, and though I’ve rebooted at least once in the last three weeks I don’t know if my containers are auto starting, or what that would do. I can’t even check until I’ve got the user logging on.

Anyone have any ideas?

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7700 XT a good choice? (self.pcmasterrace)
 

I'm thinking about buying a new GPU. I'm looking at the 7700 xt as it's about £355 and I want Linux support and I like newer features. Before I pull the trigger can anyone tell me why I'm making a huge mistake?

 

I just can’t find a decent email client that looks like it’s from the last 20 years. Geary and Evolution both appear to be pretty modern but something about using Gmail with a Yubikey just doesn’t work and neither of them will connect to my account. Both on Fedora and OpenSUSE. Thunderbird works but it’s so old fashioned and Betterbird doesn’t look much better. What’s everyone else using?

 

Tldr; does anyone know of an upgraded extruder that will fit a Geeetech i3 Pro B?

Long version: I have a Geeetech i3 Pro B that I’ve had for years now. I don’t exactly use it loads but I do like having it to print random tools and bits for my other hobbies (mostly car bits). The problem is this useless thing just jams up all the time with no explanation. I was using it fine about a month ago and then just came back to it yesterday (actually excited that it wasn’t broken for once and I could just use it), then when I went to change the filament I realised the stupid shit had jammed again. I seem to have a constant rotation of heatbreaks on this thing. Even when I got it out I couldn’t see any reason why it had jammed at all. It wouldn’t be so bad but it’s a total pain to replace since it’s not compatible with the compressions clips. I can’t even see how it could be changed to use one since the hotend is supported by the heatbreak. I looked at somehow modifying an Ultimaker one for it but it looks like it would be tricky to mod.

I would just buy a new one but if I was to do that I’d want something like a Bambu thing that would make printing much easier, but I can’t really justify spending that much. I definitely don’t want to spend a bunch of money just to end up with something that’s basically the same and will require all the tubing again.

I better stop writing now as it’s turned into a big rant.

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by twinnie to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml
 

I’ve dabbled with Linux and I’ve finally decided to try and switch to it for real, mostly because I’m starting a new job soonish that will require more Linux knowledge, but also because I’m getting sick of all the Windows privacy issues.

I’m actually liking it better than I thought. Taking an attitude that I’m sticking with it is giving me more of a drive to actually fix the issues I’m having rather than moaning about them, and it’s a good opportunity to learn.

The one thing I’m struggling with though is gaming. I’ve got a 2060S which I need for CUDA, but I’ve got the drivers working. I’ve not exactly been through my whole Steam library but I’ve not had anything running acceptably yet. DEATHLOOP, for example, on Windows runs at smooth at near 4k. On Wayland the input latency is unplayable and it crashes out every few minutes anyway. I improved it by switching to X11 but I’m still only getting 10-15 FPS when it was smooth in Windows. Even Skyrim has input latency and it’s clearly not running as fast as it should be.

When I check on ProtonDB for help I see no consistency in the settings people are using. Most of the time they just say Experimental, and I figure that changes over time anyway so it’s no help to me anyway.

Is there any helpful advice online as most of the time I just get told to try every proton version and fork until I find something that works? I’ve not even gotten into figuring out what stuff like Lutris is.

I’m on Fedora in case that’s important.

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