No. Correct wording is woke. And beta. And communist.

KDE is second-class to GNOME on Fedora.

It is? I ask because I’ve always used Fedora KDE and honesty it’s been the best KDE experience I’ve had. Now I’m curious how much better the Fedora GNOME experience might be if it’s prioritized so much more, but I’ve never seriously used GNOME so I don’t think I can make a fair assessment. In what ways is KDE deprioritized?

The second option.

It’s in the water. No food compatible with Earth lifeforms are made without water.

German firms

As in the German bourgeoisie.

Make no mistake, German “firms” are not and never will be China’s “friends.” They’re not even Germany’s friends. This is just a further extension of the West’s outsourcing of labour to China, a decidedly one sided relationship where any benefit to China is a happy accident at best and a terrible side effect at worst in the eyes of German businesspeople.

What’s the appeal of Bazzite over regular Fedora immutable version? I’ve personally never had an issue running Steam on Fedora, then again I wouldn’t consider myself a “gamer,” certainly not my biggest requirement as far as computing is concerned.

.world users complaining about .ml on a .ml community

Mostly paraphrased, I don’t remember exactly how it was worded. Also the non-quote responses were made up after the fact for this post, this wasn’t a single conversation in this order:

“You’ll miss out on so many events and social opportunities because you don’t have any ‘real’ social media.”

As an introvert, I don’t care.

“You’re selfish for putting your silly notions of ‘privacy’ over being in the loop with what your friends are doing. One day you’ll realize that being there when your friends post about their life events is more important.”

Said by someone who I never considered my friend in the first place. My actual friends have ways of reaching me other than Facebook or WhatsApp.

“Most people aren’t going to bother figuring out which obsecure ‘privacy oriented’ service you decide to use, they’re just not going to talk to you if you’re not on mainstream apps. Normal people value their time more than they value privacy.”

Please stop talking to me then, so I stop wasting your time.

“This isn’t the 1950s anymore. You need to get with the times and embrace the information age.”

I know how to program, you don’t. I know how the protocols that power the internet work, you think it’s a literal magic cloud. I run my own server at home with hardware I bought, you have to pay for Google Drive every month. I’m the one embracing the information age, you’re just blindly using it.

“Geez, you’re like an Amish person! Don’t you see you’ve fallen into a cult? Just instead of not using electricity you don’t use social media.”

No I’m not. See above, I fully embrace technology. In fact, I embrace it so much I’ve spent most of my life figuring out how it works and only use things I understand and control, and I choose not to use certain conveniences because I know how they work. Also, I’m not an antivaxxer or against modern medicine. I also think raising horses in captivity to be your slave is cruel and barbaric. Finally, I don’t believe in God and don’t try to live my life according to a 2000+ year old book. Privacy isn’t a cult, if anything, your blind faith in trillion dollar tech companies is more like the Amish’s blind faith to their God.

Is opnsense more secure?

Thank you!

Wouldn’t the old firmware still have to respond to and perform the flashing request? For example reading from a USB drive? Is it more likely to overwrite potentially malicious code compared to the reset button or automatic updates from the web admin panel?

Christmas tree and lights. Though the LED ones have ruined it for me, I can see the half wave rectified 60hz and it gives me a headache. That pisses me off so much because I was once super excited about LED Christmas lights consuming a fraction of the energy, but every company seems to think they can get away with literally just replacing incandescent bulbs with LEDs without the proper circuitry to drive them which would have cost, what? A dollar more? Hell a full bridge rectifier probably costs literally a penny when bought in bulk and though it’s still not a “proper” LED driver, it would have doubled the frequency and most people wouldn’t see it anymore.

Does anyone know any Christmas lights with a proper power supply that drives them at low voltage DC? I imagine it would be a lot safer too wrapped around a flammable plastic tree.

Run my own server at home to store my files.

As I mature, I find myself thinking very lowly of standup in general despite watching a lot of it when I was an edgy 18/19 year old. When I try to get back into it now I just see the various ethical problems with their jokes and that makes it not funny for me.

White standup comics get free reign to drop racist dog whistles and if you criticize them on it they get all snippy with you. The most popular “genre” of white stand up comedy still seems to be “I went to a [insert culture here] restaurant and here are my disrespectful and stereotype enforcing hijinks” or even “I went to [insert COUNTRY here] and will now proceed to joke about how their culture is different from us.” I can only hope the whole thing is made up and they’re not that atrocious in real life, though the vast majority of service staff seem to have stories about famous comics treating them like shit so I wouldn’t be surprised.

Even a lot of ethnic standup comics portray themselves as the victims of racism in one joke but then have no problems using stereotypes of another ethnicity in the very next joke.

Also standup definitely seems to have an air of being attended by older generations who find insulting the younger generations funny. Things like participation trophies (which was a boomer idea by the way, the kids aren’t planning school competitions or buying the prizes) or terms like “snowflake” seems to have gotten into boomer rethoric partly because of standup. Reactionary takes about progressive social movements like veganism or car-free living are also the norm because I assume they know most of the people who watch them are the type to get mad at how other people choose to live their lives. Standup in general seems to have a “let’s make fun of anything people are doing that’s different from how it was before because we don’t want to do it that way and need validation that we’re not assholes on the wrong side of history” attitude. Or they’ll just make fun of random people living their lives, I remember watching a comic on YouTube doing a whole segment making fun of people who swim laps in hotel pools because it annoys him, like bro mind your own damn business.

Occasionally a comic will try to earn brownie points by saying the most superficial shit about a major societal problem and then act like they singlehandedly solved it. Bonus points if they’re talking about another country’s problems which the West fucking caused.

I’m not saying all standup is like this or all standup comics are racist or reactionary, but I am saying there are very few long running standup shows/podcasts with none of these problems.

IDK straight CBD either does nothing for me or I don’t know what effects to look out for. I’ve never actually noticed myself “relaxing” or “calming down” or anything when I take CBD.

THC for some reason even though everyone else says it helps them sleep.

“Censorship is good, actually”

Who cares how nihilistic I am? I’ll be dead eventually and so will you.

Since all connections go through the ISP router anyway you won’t really gain that much privacy unless you directly put a VPN on your router.

I’m more concerned about local network traffic to and from my home server, especially over Wi-Fi. Most of it is SSH but there are still some unencrypted HTTP (and proxy) traffic.

Thank you for the in depth explanation of hard drive noises! I have everything I care about backed up and will keep listening for changes. Hopefully it’s just an OS thing.

I tried using smartctl but it doesn’t seem to like the fact that it’s in a USB enclosure and says “unknown USB bridge”. Trying smartctl -d sat does give some SMART information and says that the “overall-health self-assessment test result” is passed for both based on “Attribute checks”, but I’m not sure if it’s actually passed or it just can’t see the actual failing information. It also says “SMART status not supported: Incomplete response, ATA output registers are missing” above the passed result which seems to indicate that it’s missing the information it needs for a full assessment.

I run Pi-Hole and Ollama in containers, but neither have mount points or volumes on the hard drives, only the system SSD.

One drive is a fairly new Seagate IronWolf Pro, but the other is a refurbished server hard drive so if one is dying it’s probably that one, though the stuff I actually care about is copied on both drives and a third one that’s offline and unplugged.

The weird thing is that this only started happening when I reinstalled the OS, but like I said I reinstalled with newer version so that might be the cause? Maybe some disk/fs implementation changed and now does things automatically when the drives are idle that 42 didn’t do? But I feel like that would still trigger the indicators.

My next step is probably to use inotify to look at file accesses, experiment with only mounting one drive at a time to see which one clicks or if they all do, maybe even connect the drives to another computer over SATA to do a full SMART check.

Thank you!