Max-P @ Max_P @lemmy.max-p.me

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If you're buying something to mod I'd recommend a Pixel, unless you're getting an older OnePlus for cheap.

It's a OnePlus 8T, but I think any OnePlus before I think the OnePlus 11 have excellent custom ROM support.

AFAIK I got lucky and the 8T is the last model from their "being nice to developers" era. OnePlus was born originally to be developer friendly, it was based on CyanogenMod out of the box, they even sent phones to developers.

Mine launched with OxygenOS 11, and then OOS12 was completely rebuilt on Oppo's ColorOS and they threw everything out the window. Took them forever to drop sources, and it just went downhill from there.

Google bought Widevine in 2010, so in my opinion they were already concerned about big corp's interests above the users well before. I think SafetyNet is the natural evolution of that.

I think SafetyNet came with Google Pay for contactless payments, most likely at the request of the banks. They had to work with the banks for that, that's when they got the leverage. If they didn't they'd just go partner with Samsung instead, who already had Knox, and I did see Samsung Pay on my phone before Google Pay was available at all.

They also had to increasingly deal with shitty root detection libraries that were getting popular and excluding legitimate users because the latest Android changed things enough it looked modded to the apps. They probably saw it as a lesser evil to just take it in their hands.

You don't need that much leverage to put enough pressure that there's enough demands for a feature for the feature to get added. Android was dealing with a lot of fragmentation, piracy and quality problems already, Google needed people to see Android as not just the shitty budget option, they wanted to compete with the iPhone proper.

The entheusiast market only gets you so far. You need entheusiast buy-in at first, but then you have to pivot to end user "premium" experience, which is why brands like OnePlus eventually turn their back to the users that propped the company up. Regular users would rather pick the walled garden than the open world if it means their apps work better in the walled garden. The walled garden is a better experience for the average moron.

Because I have a OnePlus.

Google outright lets you unlock your bootloader on Pixels, and relock it with your custom keys, and even tells you how to do all that in the docs. You lose Play Integrity certification which is where things are getting a bit messy.

But for that you have to blame Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, Disney, a lot of banks, a lot of games for using what is basically DRM for apps. It's the developers that want those features, so you can't mod their APKs and take the ads out, make sure you download the official version from Google Play because dumb users getting scammed and all that stuff.

I run LineageOS on my phone, I'm not doing anything whatsoever to hide it, and pretty much everything works perfectly except Google Pay. Which I guess is fair game, I hate it but there's a reasonable argument to be made there.

The rest is the same DRM woes I deal with on Linux, I value my rights and freedoms more than running an app.

What do you want the UI for? For configuration it's usually meh because it's the kind of thing you configure by config file, often generated config files even. For stats it's where it gets interesting, usually third-party options like Grafana is used along with something like Prometheus to collect the metrics.

When it comes to easy configuration, newer options go for the zero configuration angle rather than a nice UI to configure it. Just need some Docker tags and Traefik automagically configures itself, so the UI is just for viewing information.

I don't remember the exact details but it didn't work right. That was arguably a couple years ago on a server distro approaching EOL, may have been long fixed. It involved Android 4.4.

Few of them for most use cases, especially a VPS. My server have a couple of IPs each mapping to a different VM, they can all claim 22/80/443 as you'd expect, but that's just basically the same as having a bunch of VPSes anyway.

It's useful for some other uses like, I might want to dedicate an IP for VPN exit that doesn't expose any services.

Another use is sometimes you just want two things to stay entirely separate, even if on a technical level it could work with a reverse proxy. It can eliminate some class of exploits like request smuggling.

One use case I've had for a customer is they have a system that can only do TLSv1.0, which is wildly obsolete and exploitable. So that particular API endpoint was served from a secondary IP, that way I can continue to enforce TLSv1.2+ on the primary IP. It's possible with some reverse proxy magic with HAproxy, but I could also just make a new server block in the existing NGINX bound to that IP and call it a day.

I think I'm kind of on the other extreme, I day dream a lot. It's like I can experience anything I've experienced before on demand and replay it. Sometimes it's annoying, it's like someone left 3 TVs and 2 radios on in my head and I can't turn it off.

I didn't know that was a thing until today, but also totally unsurprised, the brain is super weird.

I don't struggle to picture it though, that only works for me if the book is interesting. When it's boring (ie. forced to read it and there's a test), I think my brain falls back to how you read books.

How do you guys without aphantasia manage to read when there's pictures whizzing around your head all the time??

For me, the book and my surroundings completely disappear, the whole thing turns into a dream-like movie experience. I don't see letters or words at all, it becomes an unconscious process that keeps feeding the dream and it looks similar to fuzzy AI videos.

Sometimes the process of getting pulled out into reality again can be brutal: suddenly it's 3h later and I have to look around and take a moment to settle back. If you dream while you sleep, it's like when you suddenly wake up while you were in an intense dream, takes a moment to process. I'm really completely gone in another world the whole time.

Tesseract and other clients kinda do:

I had more in mind like an AM3 platform with an FX CPU, or equivalent old Intel platform.

Really starts depending on what you run on that GPU, like it'll render Furmark just fine at full tilt but a modern open world game will probably struggle with asset pop-in and stutters because of both bandwidth and the CPU not issuing draw calls fast enough to keep up with the GPU.

If it's PCI Express (as opposed to regular PCI), then it pretty much should work.

What may happen however is that the slot will run at a slower speed, so if you put a 5090 with a Core 2 Duo you will struggle to keep the GPU fed with enough data to fully load up the GPU while your CPU is pegged at 100%.

It'll run though.

EDIT: You can also have issues with the legacy BIOS and your newer card not shipping a BIOS ROM to initialize it on boot, but once it gets into the OS it should activate. If you have an iGPU it should output there until the OS starts.

I think that's what Friendica is supposed to be, decentralized Facebook.

The performance is a good point. You can do the striped mirror with ZFS too and still get the advantages of ZFS.

I think you can do all of that through the Proxmox UI, but it shouldn't be too hard to do on the CLI either. You just make two mirror sets and you're good to go. ZFS should automatically distribute the load across the two mirrors.

I'd probably do RAID-Z with ZFS rather than RAID10, better space utilization and better error correction. Should be able to easily set that up in the Proxmox web UI.

Everything else sounds good. Don't worry too much about it, you will find things you wish you did differently regardless, that's part of the learning experience.

Scarcity and being poor are two different things: when you're poor, the grocery store is fully stocked, you just can't afford it. When resources are scarce, the store is empty or almost empty. We've seen it artificially with COVID when people panicked about toilet paper. People bought all the toilet paper, some even to resell at higher prices. People do crazy things when you don't know when you'll get more, especially food and essential supplies.

Being kind when you're poor is advantageous because other poor people will help you too when you need something. It's community, and you basically end up somewhat pooling and managing resources together. But it kind of only works at small scale, because humans build relationships. At large scale it breaks into groups, and groups form even bigger groups, and you have factions and big fights.

For capitalism, maybe it's not the best fitting word. I mean specifically people will barter and trade, someone will find a way to generate profits, hiring other people for profit and eventually slowly start hoarding all the resources just like regular corporate modern day. Even the concept of taxes is pretty old: you give me some extra grain and I'll protect your farm. Someone will find a way to position themselves as important and justify taking more than others. Get favors, bribes, make more kids to help maintain the family's power.

Ideally, socialism isn't just "the government provides for your needs", it goes the other way around too. The point is to come together, pool resources and combine our strenghts. There's no free handouts, you give and you receive.

You shouldn't have to enforce a birth rate cap if the population understand that they need to match society's capacity to expand and build the infrastructure. You'd announce the recommended number and danger number, and people would organically organize to on average make it, knowing their large family could lead to famine.

The main problem here is

If all basic needs were met (food, shelter, and medical)

That part does a lot of heavylifting there. People only play nice all together when society is working for them, people need to respect the society they live in. When scarcity happens, people become selfish, it's survival of the strongest, and everything falls off the rails and naturally goes to capitalism and hoarding resources. The population cannot lose faith in the system.

The graph suggests it started declining well before AI became mainstream. I'm sure it accelerates it, but it had already long peaked.

Maybe, just maybe, most of the big questions have been asked and answered already.

These days when I look something up it's been answered like 8 years ago, and the answer is still valid. And they aggressively mark questions as dupes, so people aren't opening too many repeat questions.