And then there is trump, the illegitimate president, Russian stooge, trying to repeal the CHIPS act.

So many linux posts seem to be new people getting frustrated at their lack of knowledge and trying to reinvent something that already exists. I’m looking at this thinking, why didn’t they just use locate and fzf?

I stopped sitting in on interviews at my old job. Everyone that I thought was a great interview ended up being a shitty employee.

The exact phrasing varies, but in most states, the details of the law are the same: Any “commercial entity” that publishes “material harmful to minors” online can be held liable—meaning, tens of thousands of dollars in fines and/or private lawsuits—if it doesn’t “perform reasonable age verification methods to verify the age of individuals attempting to access the material.”

Sure seems like that would cover a lot of websites, including most news sites.

It just downloads the audio file for the video, so if there is that crap, you get it. I haven’t had many issues with extra stuff though. I send it a link like https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbNzvRx9lF_Tw6oi-I8iYbhBWNf775kwR and I get a good-enough-for-me bunch of mp3s.

Just a little FYI for anyone wanting to download a playlist to listen to offline. Use yt-dlp. Load up the playlist, copy the URL, and then just run

yt-dlp --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list<the playlist>

I don’t know if I’m alone on this, but I just bought the biggest 5400rpm HDD that was in my price range when I set up. Might notice the slower speed when doing a big data dump, but for streaming purposes you can run many 4k streams concurrently and the bottleneck would probably be your network speed before you hit a drive read bottleneck.

(1/3) +(1/2)(1/3) = 1/2

Math checks out from this end.

Do you have things on the external that precludes you formatting it? You aren’t doing it too often, so a tarball might work, but you’ll be wasting a lot of time doing it that way. Then again, if it’s once a month, that doesn’t seem like a huge deal. I just use rsync now and then for my external backup and it doesn’t take long at all.

I’m kind of out of date with modern Linux stuff, but can’t you throw that in the .xsessionsrc or .xinitrc file?

I started with PowerPPC back in the '90s (it did not even ship with a working X system). Then went to Debian a few years later, and it was great. I played around with Gentoo for a little while when it first came out, then ended up back on Debian after a couple months. Then I played around with Arch for a little when it showed up, then went back to Debian. After that I just said fuck it, and have stuck with Debian. I run testing/unstable unless it’s some side server I have, in that case I just run stable. I hear good things about OpenSUSE and Fedora, but at this point I’m old and don’t feel like trying something when I have no issues. Tiling WM and Vim. That’s about all I seem to need.

BeOS on my old PowerPC blew my mind in the late 90s.

Well that sure sounds like a bunch of marketing gobbledygook.

Well that makes more sense. I saw that quote and just noped out. I’ll see if anything is questioned in my area.

The info you enter is directly added to OpenStreetMap in your name

I try to minimize “my name” being out there.

AI leading us cavemen into the future.

I wish they wouldn’t advertise days of battery life, when their “day” is 1/2 an hour. Just say how many hours the battery will run. The math for how long it’ll run for my use is not rocket science. It’s good to see color E Ink in a reasonable price range. I think I’ll wait for the size to increase while staying affordable.

I don’t think you’ll get anything that is a real drop in for Partiful.

Sounds interesting. I’d imagine it would make it easier to seal off the electronics and have a drink-proof keyboard.

Try it out. It’s free. Install it on a PC or phone, set up a shared folder. Put something in it. Set up syncthing on another phone/computer and use the same folder name. The program takes care of all the network stuff.